Excerpt from Technical Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics

The following paragraph is an adaptation from the preface of the first edition of this work, published ten years ago; it applies to the present edition.

This book might be described fairly as a theoretical mechanics for students of engineering. It is not comparable to books commonly called Theoretical Mechanics, generally intended for students of mathematics or physics; nor to books commonly titled Applied Mechanics which generally include a treat ment of strength of materials, hydraulics, etc., for students of engineering. The title Technical Mechanics seems fairly appropriate for this book; and inasmuch as it is not otherwise used in this country, it was so adopted. On the theoretical side, practically each subject discussed herein has a direct bearing on some engineering problem.' The applications were selected and presented for the purpose of illustrating a principle of mechanics and for training students in the use of such principles, not to furnish information, except incidentally, about the structure, machine, or what not to which the application was made.

Ten years use of the book asa text in the author's classes has suggested many changes; and in recent years the need of a new collection of problems has become urgent. Accordingly, a revision was undertaken, and the effort has resulted in a practically rewritten book. Indeed the only portion of the former edition used again with little or no change is the present Appendix A. Though containing fewer pages than the old book, the new one because of its (nearly one-third) larger printed page contains more material than the old.

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